Irgalmasok Veli Bej Bath

This guide to Irgalmasok Veli Bej Bath in Budapest starts with a stone plaque dated 1806 that seems out of place on an Ottoman pasha's pleasure bath, then goes back to 1574, when governor Sokollu Mustafa Pasha ordered the bath built and his masons hid the completion date in a numeric poem carved over the door. It follows the bath through the siege that retook Buda in 1686 and its long decline afterward, up to the nobleman who bought the ruin in 1806. Best eased into slowly, facing up toward the original sixteenth-century dome.